The NRA Claims the AR-15 Is Useful for Hunting and Home Defense. Not Exactly.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

64. What you say is untrue.

I do not have a "hobby has a tendency to kill little kids from time to time."

Not that it is any of your business, but my hobby is flying a Cessna. It's true that there have been some airplane crashes from time to time, but I feel no responsibility for that. None of my flying has every hurt anyone, whether they be kids or adults.

Something that I remember that is important to the Democratic Party and American middle-class is the Congressional losses in 1994. In 1993, after an unhappy businessman went into a San Francisco law office and shot up the place, Diane Feinstein pushed for the AWB. In his autobiography, Bill Clinton attributed the 1994 Democratic Party losses in part to the passage of the AWB. This ended a 50-year control over the House of Representatives and a period where the American middle-class had a fair shake in the economy.

When Diane Feinstein pushed for the first AWB, she didn't do it "for the children." She did it for the rich and the super-rich who saw the assault on the SF law firm as a potential for additional assaults against super-rich enclaves. The first AWB did not prevent or lessen the Columbine High School shootings.

Some do not perceive her current actions as having any effect upon future elections. Apparently in their view, all she and others have to say is that "It's for the children." I agree that such actions won't have any effect -- but only if those Democrats who own firearms and the Independents who own firearms agree with that thinking. In contrast, as can be seen from even the posts on this board, there are Democrats who are not going to allow panic-thinking and false charges (such as the false implication that gun-owning Democrats are child-killer enablers) to convince them to go along with another AWB.

If you want to spend time implying that gun-owning Democrats are child-killer enablers, that's up to you. But since some statistics indicate that 40% of Democratic households own firearms, I fail to see what you are going to accomplish other than creating further animosity on this board.